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India's legal education system needs "dramatic reform" to improve
the economic environment and ensure citizens get speedy and
affordable access to justice, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said
Saturday.
"If we are to have a society... where the common man and common
woman gets speedy and affordable access to justice, if we are to
have in our country the turbulence in effect of the rule of law, if
we are to have an economic environment where contracts are easily
enforceable, then we must ensure that our law teachers, practicing
advocates, corporate legal luminaries, legal advisors, judicial
officers and legal facilitators are indeed men and women of very
high intellectual caliber," he said while inaugurating the National
Consultation for Second Generation Reforms in Legal Education here.
"And this is possible only if there is dramatic reform and
improvement in the scope and quality of our legal education system."
Noting that India had a "small number of dynamic and outstanding law
schools", Manmohan Singh, however, lamented that "they remain
islands of excellence amidst a sea of institutionalized mediocrity".
"We are not even marginally nearer to profound scholarship and
enlightened research in law."
Recalling the words of then president S. Radhakrishnan that "our
colleges of law do not hold a place of high esteem either at home or
abroad, nor has law become an area of profound scholarship and
enlightened research", Manmohan Singh said: "It’s no doubt we have
traveled a long distance since that time. But we must admit and have
to ask honestly ourselves whether we have significantly altered the
landscape of our legal education system.
"As we and we must introspect honestly, we must sadly accept that
Radhakrishnan’s powerful yet poignant words may not be amenable to
any radical restatement even today," Manmohan Singh said.
He said action "on many fronts" was required to reform and improve
India's legal education system to meet the needs of the growing
economy and "a knowledge society that we wish to become".
"There is the issue of making our legal curricula multidisciplinary,
creative and flexible. It is only relatively recently that areas
like ethics in the judicial profession, clinical legal education,
alternative dispute resolution, rights of refugees, rights of
prisoners and women and child rights, are being given their
legitimate due in the legal curriculum.
"There is an urgent need to integrate these and other areas into a
national, uniform course module with fewer exceptions and fewer
divergences," the prime minister said.
Pointing to the "serious problem" of too few law teachers of
quality, he said: "The sad reality is that when we look for experts
to head new law schools and the new faculties, we have precious few
to choose from."
Thus, there was the "obvious need" to provide "more uniform but
calibrated and better salaries, accompanied by considerably improved
terms of service for our teachers", he added.
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